I remember when the Atkins Diet gained popularity there were many health professionals that tried to debunk the diet saying it was unhealthy and you were going to get heart disease. Many years later you will still not find any hard evidence that the diet is unhealthy and in fact, many health professionals were completely surprised that the diet had the opposite effect. People were getting healthier, losing weight, lowering cholesterol and eradicating diabetes. Recently I have been doing a lot of research on some long term studies of the ketogenic diet and published one the other day. Today I found a movie on how the keto diet can literally save thousands of lives and that we all should be eating this way. Basically meats, vegetables and good fats. Remove sugar completely and watch serious diseases disappear. I suggest that you just watch this 2:25 minute trailer on the movie called The Magic Pill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GitUC_678 Copy and paste this link into your browser.

Just 2 minutes of your time will hopefully prod you to watch the movie. I would love to hear what you think of the movie if you watch it, especially if you have any health issues or your family has health issues.

And by the way, the Ketoba product is now in stock and I started to take it today. I will keep you all posted on my weight loss results. I have a good 30 pounds to lose and if this does it, I am going to buy shares in the company lol. Will keep you posted!

KETOBA- A breakthrough supplement to put the body automatically into ketosis for rapid weight loss! Is it true???

Every year billions of dollars are spent on weight loss supplements…billions! People who want to lose weight will try just about anything and are willing and able to spend a lot of money to achieve this. With the gradual resurgence of low-carb diets in recent years, the word “ketones” is thrown around a lot. But many people aren’t really aware of the details. What are ketones, really? And what do they do in the body?

Ketones, also known as “ketone bodies,” are by-products of the body breaking down fat for energy that occurs when carbohydrate intake is low.

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS!

When there isn’t a sufficient level of available glucose — which is what the body uses for its main source of fuel — and glycogen levels are depleted, blood sugar and insulin are lowered and the body looks for an alternative source of fuel: in this case, fat. This process can happen when a person is fasting, after prolonged exercise, during starvation, or when eating a low-carb, ketogenic diet. And when the body begins breaking down fats for energy like this, ketones are formed for use as fuel for the body and brain. This is known as ketosis. People following a ketogenic diet specifically reduce their carbohydrate intake for this reason: to create ketones for energy. Many people use the benefits of ketosis — less reliance on carbs and more burning of fat — to possibly help lower blood pressure, reduce cravings, improve cholesterol, increase weight loss, improve energy, and more.

What if you can take a supplement without having to follow a ketogenic diet so closely? Would you take it?

KETOBA is a brand new breakthrough product that puts the body into ketosis. So what is KETOBA and how does it work?

KETOBA is a specific ketone body called BHB (B-hydroxybutyrate) as well as BA (Butyrate or Butyric Acid). Research shows that this ketone can generate as much as 38% more energy than ATP. (ATP is a chemical compound that is synthesised by all cells and is used as a means of storing and transferring energy within cells…sort of like the energy spark plug of each cell). BA is a short chain fatty acid (not medium chain) which is found naturally in dairy fat. (Butter is one of the richest sources.) Butyric acid turns the typical ketone body (BHB) into an effective weight loss strategy.

Adding BA with a ketone body like BHB creates an activated ketone. This is KETOBA. KETOBA keeps blood BHB levels stay consistently high and blood glucose levels down. Elevated levels of BHB push the body to use its own fat stores for fuel. KETOBA has also shown to curb appetite!

Additionally, KETOBA increases energy and stamina, mental clarity and is a powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant! Because KETOBA is a short chain fatty acid (SCFA) it will not cause gastrointestinal issues like medium chain fatty acids such as MCT oil. In fact, KETOBA improves electrolyte and water reabsorption and helps to balance probiotic culture in the colon. KETOBA supports insulin efficiency and blood sugar management allowing BHB to be utilized as the primary energy source. To get more information for this product, you can check out their site: http://www.rhemamade.com/FAQRetrieve.aspx?ID=67612

I have sourced out this amazing one of a kind fat burning product and am going to try it myself along with my colleague. I will keep you posted on how it works. If you are interested in trying this yourself, let me know and I will help you out! Let’s turn on our fat burning machines!

Recently Diet Doctor posted this article on a new study of whether or not staying on a low carb diet is healthy in the long run. “One of the big criticisms of low-carbohydrate diets is the claim that they are unsustainable long term, so it’s great to see teams of researchers carrying out studies to find out about the effects of following a low-carbohydrate diet over longer periods of time.” Here is the article and the links if you want to read the details.

“A team of researchers in Japan has been studying low carbohydrate diets. In a study published in January 2014, the researchers had already found that a moderately low-carbohydrate diet is more effective than calorie restriction for improving lipid profile and blood sugar control in type-2 diabetics.

Now, in a new study, the team set out to find out whether eating a moderate low-carb diet is sustainable, effective and safe long term.

The researchers followed 200 patients with type 2 diabetes over a period of three years. They found that a moderate carbohydrate restriction (70–130 g/day) was enough to have a positive effect on the patients’ health markers, and that the diet is “highly effective, safe and sustainable”. They added that:

I have been asked this question multiple times…what is the difference between the Paleo and Keto diet? Personally, I follow the Keto diet. Well about 80% of the time. They are both very similar in that they are both low carb, somewhat. Let’s break down the difference between the two diets.

The Paleo diet is more of a lifestyle choice that focuses on eating quality foods that support digestive health. It is based on eliminating grains and legumes due to their phytic acid content. Most dairy products are also off limits on the Paleo diet because they contain lactose, which is hard for most people to digest (although some people do include ghee or grass-fed butter). The dictionary describes the Paleo diet as such: “a diet based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans, consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and excluding dairy or grain products and processed food.” By removing the most difficult foods to digest, the Paleo diet can be therapeutic for gut health, autoimmune conditions, blood sugar balance, and weight loss.

Ketosis is a natural process the body initiates to help us survive when food intake is low, during famine or fasting. We don’t do this through starvation of calories, rather just a starvation of carbohydrates. During this state, we produce ketones, which are produced from the breakdown of fats in the liver. The Keto diet is based on drastically reducing carbohydrates which forces the body to burn ketones for energy. The main source of fuel for the body is glucose. Basically, EVERYTHING is a carb (with the exception of meat, fat (and eggs)) and ALL carbs break down into glucose. Insulin is then produced to metabolize the glucose. IF we starve the body of carbs (glucose) it has no other choice but to burn fat for energy.

Both diets are touted as being much healthier for the body without having to count fat or calories. Both diets have similar allowable foods such as meat and fish, vegetables, nuts and seeds, eggs and good fats. Both diets avoid grains and legumes (for different reasons) and both diets avoid processed foods (this is always a good thing). There are many differences between the diets though such as; Paleo allows fruit and root vegetables where on the Keto diet, they both have far too many carbs. The Paleo diet isn’t as low carb as the Keto diet which means you will not enter ketosis (fat burning). The Keto diet doesn’t restrict dairy where the Paleo diet does (for digestive reasons).

How can these diets be unhealthy? You are basically not eating junk and empty calorie foods. Many health professionals say that we NEED lots of carbs as this is our main source of fuel but there really are no hard evidence-based research that can dispute the health benefits of both diets.

So which diet best suits you? Probably both. I do not eat gluten in my diet for the most part, not because I cannot digest it, but because I feel it is not healthy for you. So, for me, following either diet would work however I choose to follow the Keto diet as I am not a fan of fruit and am always seeking weight loss. The choice is yours but either diet will help you achieve weight loss and better health and isn’t better health what all of us want?

Every day when talking to customers in our health food stores, I realize that stress is such an issue with women in today’s world and such a deterrent to weight loss….but how does stress affect your weight loss efforts? Aside from weight loss, let it be known that 70% of all doctor’s visits are stress related. Stress contributes to 7 of the top 10 killers in North America. These would include heart disease, cancer and diabetes just to name a few. Additionally, stress causes poor sleep which in turn is a major stress on your body. Cortisol is our stress hormone which is released when your body perceives a stressor. Cortisol is not all bad…it is the hormone of energy and alertness and adapts to stress. It’s when we get too much cortisol that becomes a major problem.

Cortisol is our fight or flight hormone. If you were chased by a predator, you either fought it or you ran like a bat out of hell. Physiologically multiple things happen when your cortisol levels are activated. Blood is shunted away from your gut and pushed into the muscles (so you can run faster). Your pupils dilate (so you can see where you are running) and most importantly, you store fat! Your body doesn’t know how long you will have to run for so it stores fat for future energy. So bottom line, when you are stressed you will not lose weight because your body becomes very efficient at storing fat!

Today, stress (emotional or physical) is almost constant and this can cause a number of issues when it comes to weight loss and health, especially when combined with easy access to unhealthy foods. Cortisol makes cells less responsive to incoming signals. For example; Type II Diabetes is a disease where sufficient insulin is produced, but your body’s cells can’t read the insulin signal. We call this insulin resistance. When insulin remains high as in this case, your body will NOT release fat from its fat cells which traps the fat you have into their cells.

Many good weight loss supplements will add ingredients to address cortisol as well as added fat burners.

With so many protein bars on the market, it’s hard to know what to look for in a good quality low carb protein bar. Some bars have more sugar than a candy bar or donut and not much protein. When looking at the ingredients list, don’t forget that when following a low carb diet, you don’t just look at the total carbs. You must look at the NET carbs. These are the carbs that are left over after you subtract the fiber and sugar alcohols. For example, if the bar says it has 28g of total carbs, 12g of fiber and 8g of sugar alcohol, it only has 8 NET carbs. These are the carbs left that have a glycemic response and will affect blood sugars. Other things to look for include:

Gluten Free

High Fiber (10g or more)

Moderate Protein (no less than 8g)

Basically, the fewer ingredients the better. Why not make your own protein bars? This will take the guessing game out of all of the unknown ingredients and you can control everything yourself. Check out this site which has links to 50 best low carb protein bar recipes.

Who doesn’t love a nice cup of hot cocoa especially in this cold, snowy winter to soothe and relax you? Cacao is loaded with antioxidants which helps to protect your body, especially during the cold and flu season. Try this recipe from Dr. Mercola and share it with your family.

Ingredients

1 cup organic full fat coconut milk

1 cup water

1 heaping tablespoon raw cacao powder

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon honey

1 teaspoon MCT oil

1 teaspoon xylitol or other sugar substitute

Procedure

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend for three minutes.

Place cocoa mixture in a small saucepan and warm the mixture over low heat. Be sure to whisk often to ensure all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated.